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Ensh*ttification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse & What to Do (eBook)
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- Author: Cory Doctorow
- Print Length: 353 pages
- Winner of the 2026 Locus Award for Nonfiction
- Ensh*ttification: It's not just you - the internet sucks now. It's been ensh*ttified. That was no accident, and it's not gonna fix itself. Here's how we'll disensh*ttify it so we can have a new, good internet.
- We are all living through the Ensh*ttocene - the Great Ensh*ttening - a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are being turned into giant piles of sh*t. It's frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying
- The once-glorious internet has degenerated into 'platforms' that rose to dominance because they delivered convenient and delightful services efficiently and reliably. But once we were locked in to those services, the tech bosses turned on us, relying on our dependency to keep us using the services even as they got worse and worse. The platform bosses did the same to the companies that had flocked to their services to sell stuff to us. Once we were all locked in - businesses and users - the tech companies stripped out all utility, save the bare minimum needed to stave off total collapse
- In Ensh*ttification, Cory Doctorow shows us where it comes from: not the iron laws of economics, or the great forces of history, but specific policy choices made by powerful people who ignored every warning about the consequences of those choices. These are choices that can be undone. Ensh*ttification is a Big Tech disassembly manual, a road map for the seizure of the means of computation. It is a diagnosis, and it is a cure
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Various Digital Retailers have Ensh*ttification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (eBook) by Cory Doctorow on sale for $3.99.
Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for posting this deal.
Note, must purchase from the available digital retailers listed
Available from:
Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for posting this deal.
Note, must purchase from the available digital retailers listed
Available from:
- Macmillan via Amazon (Kindle)
- Note: Eligible Prime members may apply earned No-Rush Shipping credits to this purchase (check balance).
- Apple Books
- Barnes & Noble (Nook)
- Google Play Store
- Kobo
- Bookshop
- eBooks.com
- Author: Cory Doctorow
- Print Length: 353 pages
- Winner of the 2026 Locus Award for Nonfiction
- Ensh*ttification: It's not just you - the internet sucks now. It's been ensh*ttified. That was no accident, and it's not gonna fix itself. Here's how we'll disensh*ttify it so we can have a new, good internet.
- We are all living through the Ensh*ttocene - the Great Ensh*ttening - a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are being turned into giant piles of sh*t. It's frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying
- The once-glorious internet has degenerated into 'platforms' that rose to dominance because they delivered convenient and delightful services efficiently and reliably. But once we were locked in to those services, the tech bosses turned on us, relying on our dependency to keep us using the services even as they got worse and worse. The platform bosses did the same to the companies that had flocked to their services to sell stuff to us. Once we were all locked in - businesses and users - the tech companies stripped out all utility, save the bare minimum needed to stave off total collapse
- In Ensh*ttification, Cory Doctorow shows us where it comes from: not the iron laws of economics, or the great forces of history, but specific policy choices made by powerful people who ignored every warning about the consequences of those choices. These are choices that can be undone. Ensh*ttification is a Big Tech disassembly manual, a road map for the seizure of the means of computation. It is a diagnosis, and it is a cure
Editor's Notes
Written by Discombobulated | Staff- At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
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Lightbulbs have rated hours. Cars have mileage. Buildings have estimated lifespans.
Humans don't have a sensor that tells us how much longer something will last. So instead, we measure quality indirectly by how often we have to replace things when they break.
But you know what else makes you replace things more frequently, besides declining quality?
Owning more shit.
When they come on, I mute the TV and spend two minutes doing anything but watching whatever crap they wanted me to see.
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I'm all for supporting authors, but the difference between a $27 ebook and the same ebook at $4 is significant.
When they come on, I mute the TV and spend two minutes doing anything but watching whatever crap they wanted me to see.
When they come on, I mute the TV and spend two minutes doing anything but watching whatever crap they wanted me to see.
Couldn't take it anymore.. That's why I finally said 'f**k it, got myself a Vsee and never looked back.
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Cars are forced to have all kinds of things to choke their engines off and make them run worse to supposedly get .1 more miles per gallon, its why new cars with turbos, 10 speed transmissions ordered by the EPA are unreliable junk.
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The concept is relatively simple. But it's easy to both overstate and understate it. It's not just "greed made things worse," it's: ad-based profit creates free products that cater to users, then businesses, then have a captured audience of both businesses and users thanks to technical lock-in, and begin to squeeze profit out of every area they can because they are not beholden to a customer as long as there is no ability for real competition, which is what most regulation of tech actually does—limit new entrants into the field by raising the bar for what it costs to allow user-generated content, for example.
These problems all have solutions. They work together and in parts. What's most worth reading are Cory's actual solutions to these problems, which include, but are much much larger than "using a different service."
Just like the path to socialism isn't "buy less," the path to undoing what's happened to internet platforms over two decades isn't "don't pay for crap." Neither is it "if it's free, you're the product, so don't be the product."
Unfortunately, these companies are more like power and water utilities (and are beginning to literally become those), and also sewage treatment plants. You're not the product--you're the plumbing and the wiring. And in this extended metaphor, the solution to the crap that's flowing through most of us, which used to be water and power, is everything from requiring pipes and wiring that fits any system, universally, by law, or making it easy for someone to build those universal connectors, and build them better, so we can redirect both where our water and power comes from, and where it goes.
Adversarial interoperability, improved labor power, anti-competitive action, tearing down walled gardens, undoing regulation that burdens new entrants. Things of that nature.
And yes, it is hilarious that this is on sale at Amazon in this way. Cory always releases his work without DRM. He kickstarts the cost for his audio books, for example, so that he can offer them the way he wants outside of the usual systems. He's the real deal. But by all means, $4 is a good price and he's probably gotten enough out of the book by now.
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